POND’S COSMETIC ADVERTISEMENT: A REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN’S BEAUTY
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- Magazine is one of information sources in this modern era. It can be found everywhere such as café, waiting room, barbershop, etc. One example of information provided by media magazine is advertisement. People see the information of the products from this media by giving attention to the text and visual sign. In magazine advertisements, people might get to know the newest and famous products. This thesis studies about the representation of women’s beauty in POND’S whitening product advertisements. The purpose of this study is see how Femina magazine presents POND’S whitening beauty product in the advertisements. The outcome of analyzing the advertisements for this research with Roland Barthes’s semiotic. The research finds that POND’S whitening product popularity and attractiveness so that readers want to buy POND’S whitening beauty product. The strategies are by use of popular culture’s celebrities, special color in the visualization, and special words, phrases or sentences in the text. Key words: PONDS. Whitening, advertisement, Femina